Problem

You want to connect to MySQL using Python.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25865270/how-to-install-python-mysqldb-module-using-pip




Many tutorials and post talk about using python-MySQLdb. This did not work for me, as you can see...

The error

sudo apt install python-pip





pip install MySQL-python









sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libmysqlclient-dev





Then try again


pip install MySQL-python


..

..the above is all nonsense..

Solution

sudo apt install python3-pip 

sudo pip3 install mysql-connector-python 

Note "mysql" is there





And to use...

Result

My dboconnect.py code:

<<dbconnect.py>>

import mysql.connector
from mysql.connector import Error

try:
    connection = mysql.connector.connect(host='localhost',
                                         database='epicdb',
                                         user='newuser',
                                         password='febr99')
    if connection.is_connected():
        db_Info = connection.get_server_info()
        print("Connected to MySQL Server version ", db_Info)
        cursor = connection.cursor()
        cursor.execute("select database();")
        record = cursor.fetchone()
        print("You're connected to database: ", record)

except Error as e:
    print("Error while connecting to MySQL", e)
finally:
    if (connection.is_connected()):
        cursor.close()
        connection.close()
        print("MySQL connection is closed")

For more info on using this module 

Acknowledgment

https://pynative.com/install-mysql-connector-python/